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...does in magnesium incendiary bombs. But after two years of research, engineers of Northrop Aircraft Inc. discovered that magnesium can safely be arc-welded if the hot metal is blanketed with helium to exclude atmospheric oxygen. The helium also cools the molten metal, acts as a metal-cleaning flux...
Dysentery, long known as the "Bloody Flux," is Menace No. 2. There are two varieties: one, caused by bacilli, used to kill ten to 40%, can now be successfully treated with sulfaguanidine; the other, caused by Endameba histolytica, a one-celled parasite, often produces lifelong intestinal ailments. Dysentery temporarily incapacitated almost 2,000,000 men in the Civil War. Since dysentery organisms dwell in contaminated food and water, the disease can be prevented, as it was in World War I, by rigid cleanliness in cooking, strict inspection of food handlers, water and supplies...
...first, says Laski, because any great change would wreck the war machine, and without victory over the external enemy, both socialism and democracy would be lost. He answers those who are calling for a complete blueprint of British war aims by pointing out that with events so completely in flux, the most that the British can do is to define the criteria on which their specific aims will be based, and this they are doing...
...Financial systems are in continual flux, and don't survive anyhow, war or no war. Economic systems all depend on the balance of power between the holders of private property with their parasites and the really productive proletariat. Mr. Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden are for private property and oligarchy. Stalin is for public property and democracy. So am I. Therefore, I cannot give you an unbiased opinion. All I can tell you is that when the war is over there will be wigs on the green...
...representative of the student body as a whole when it called tutorial "the focal point of a liberal education," and when it warned that "in the mind of most undergraduates, Harvard would not be the same place without tutorial, in spite of its defects and its present state of flux." The same section fired a broadside at those who, to make room for immediate and useful technical training, would squeeze out the teaching of values which will be needed in the post-war world...